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TIL in early 1984 Chrysler was about to introduce the Newport. However, after the dealers have taken first orders for those cars, Chrysler decided to cancel the new model and sell it as the Dodge Diplomat SE instead.

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N47J TIL during the Rugby World Cup final a New Zealand player had his scrotum torn open level a testicle exposed in a tackle that also cost him 4 teeth. He had it replaced back and stitched up by the physio then returned to play only to be knocked out. He has no recollection of the game.
RrM8 TIL that electronic musician Aphex Twin owns a tank, which he acquired through a ‘shady kind of exchange’ - “It’s easy to get carried away when you’re raving down the thoroughfare in a steel-hulled tank…. You don’t even have to signal, people simply get right out of your way.”
4XJva TIL the iconic picture of Earth coined, 'The Blue Marble", was the first picture that viewed the entire planet as a whole and was only possible due to the sun being behind the Apollo 17 crew. Originally, the image was South up with Antarctica on top, but NASA flipped it to be more recognizable.
xYQg TIL If all new cars produced were powered by lithium batteries, the world would run out of lithium in ~30 years.
POje TIL that Bridgetown, Barbados is the only city outside of North America that George Washington visited (with his brother Lawrence to treat his Tuberculosis). While there, 19 year-old George survived Smallpox, giving him immunity to the disease which later killed so many of his Revolutionary solders.